The House Of Elrig
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Gavin Maxwell — celebrated naturalist, adventurer, and author of the beloved Ring of Bright Water — turns his luminous prose inward in The House of Elrig, a deeply personal memoir chronicling his solitary and often turbulent childhood in the wild, wind-swept landscapes of Galloway, Scotland. Set against the austere backdrop of the ancestral Maxwell estate, Elrig, the narrative traces the young Gavin's formative years — his intense bond with the natural world, his profound isolation from peers, and the eccentric, aristocratic world into which he was born. The memoir details the pain of an unconventional upbringing marked by boarding school hardships and a sensitivity that set him apart, all rendered with the same poetic intensity that defined his finest writing. A companion piece to his other autobiographical works, The House of Elrig illuminates the origins of Maxwell's lifelong obsession with wild creatures and remote places, presenting the reader with a portrait of the artist as a wounded, wondering child. His prose is by turns elegiac and precise, capturing the textures of bog, moor, and shoreline with the eye of a naturalist and the soul of a poet. Those already captivated by the world of Ring of Bright Water will find here the very roots of the man who wrote it — and discover that the loneliness of Elrig never truly left him.
Author: Gavin Maxwell
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Gavin Maxwell — celebrated naturalist, adventurer, and author of the beloved Ring of Bright Water — turns his luminous prose inward in The House of Elrig, a deeply personal memoir chronicling his solitary and often turbulent childhood in the wild, wind-swept landscapes of Galloway, Scotland. Set against the austere backdrop of the ancestral Maxwell estate, Elrig, the narrative traces the young Gavin's formative years — his intense bond with the natural world, his profound isolation from peers, and the eccentric, aristocratic world into which he was born. The memoir details the pain of an unconventional upbringing marked by boarding school hardships and a sensitivity that set him apart, all rendered with the same poetic intensity that defined his finest writing. A companion piece to his other autobiographical works, The House of Elrig illuminates the origins of Maxwell's lifelong obsession with wild creatures and remote places, presenting the reader with a portrait of the artist as a wounded, wondering child. His prose is by turns elegiac and precise, capturing the textures of bog, moor, and shoreline with the eye of a naturalist and the soul of a poet. Those already captivated by the world of Ring of Bright Water will find here the very roots of the man who wrote it — and discover that the loneliness of Elrig never truly left him.